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October 14th, 2011

October 14, 2011

The Bishop Lady Broncos tennis team faced the Kern Valley Broncs, Thursday, and came away with another tight loss, 10-8.
The Broncosâ singles and doubles both took four matches.
Doubles team of Hope McIndoo and Tara Gardner, once again, kept it exciting with two tie-breakers, losing both by 3-7, but coming back to win their final match 7-5.
âHope and Tara have taken a match to a tie-breaker against every school we have played,â said coach Patty Cummings. âThey really battle.â
Final scores for McIndoo and Gardner against Kern: 7-5, 6-7, 6-7.

October 14, 2011

The Lone Pine Golden Eagles volleyball squad got bitten by the Boron Bobcats at home Thursday, losing 1-3 (8-25, 25-23, 21-25, 19-25)
âBoronâs strong serving and stingy defense kept us rattled throughout the match,â said coach Mel Joseph. âWe lacked the inspiration and desire to push points when the opportunity was there. Everyone had moments of greatness, just not at the same time and Boron took at advantage.â
Lone Pine served 95 percent as a team.

October 14, 2011

The Bishop Lady Broncos volleyball team scored a High Desert League win Thursday, taking down the Rosamond Roadrunners 3-1.
âIt felt great to get a win,â said coach Sherri Sonke. âThe girls were excited, they played well.â
Game scores: 25-17, 25-19, 18-25 and 26-24
The JV squad swept the Roadrunners, 25-16, 25-6. Jessica Borin had an 18-point run from the service line.
Next week, the Broncos have a home stand, taking on Desert on Tuesday and California City on Thursday. JV games start at 4 p.m., followed by varsity.
INDIVIDUAL STATS
Tara Baiano: 3 kills

October 13th

October 13, 2011

This has, undoubtedly, been a busy season for search and rescue personnel.
In the past 12 days alone, Inyo County Search and Rescue responded to nine separate calls, from Sept. 28 to Oct. 9. From overdue hikers to a hiker who perished from suspected high altitude sickness, SAR has been beating the trails and assisting folks in the backcountry from Mt. Whitney to Bishop Pass.

October 13, 2011

Inyo County signed off on a new draft pumping plan by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power that addresses concerns local officials had about potential over-pumping.
The LADWP released a draft pumping plan this spring that called for pumping levels in the Independence Blackrock area that the Board of Supervisors and Inyo County Water Department said were unacceptable.
In response, the LADWP presented a new, modified draft pumping plan that would reduce activity in the Independence Blackrock well field, but increase pumping at the Laws and Independence Oak well fields.

October 13, 2011

Consistently ranked as one of the nationâs toughest colleges to get into, Deep Springs has recently doubled its number of possible applicants.
The college, founded in 1917, will no longer have an all-male student body. After brief pilot and summer programs with coeducation, the trustees of the remote college/working ranch voted 10-2 in September to begin accepting female applicants.

October 13, 2011

William George Greenlee
1934-2011

William George Greenlee, 76, died Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011 in Medford, Ore.
Born in Los Angeles in 1934, Bill moved to Bishop with his mother, Elizabeth, his daddy, William and sister, Georgia in 1949.

October 13, 2011

Richard Kenneth Nelson
1937-2011

Richard Kenneth Nelson, age 74, born in Lone Pine on June 15, 1937, died Oct. 2, 2011 in Spokane, Wash.
Richard was raised in Big Pine and resided in Bishop until the early 1970s, when he moved his family to Seeley Lake, Mont. Richard served in the U.S. Army in Germany during the Berlin Crisis. He loved the outdoors.

October 11th

October 11, 2011

Townsfolk and business people in Bishop and beyond have been chomping at the bit to learn the fate of Cottonwood Plaza. And, due to circumstances outside anyoneâs control, what is to become of the plaza will have to be put on hold a little longer.
There are new owners of the property and the buildings, Ray and Lis Eslamiyeh of Southern California. Tom Schaniel of TSchaniel Architecture of Bishop has been putting together plans to refurbish the infrastructure of the buildings â fire suppression, electrical and plumbing â with more landscaping and exterior work to be done as well.

October 11, 2011

A bomb goes off in the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power office on Mandich Street in Bishop, destroying most of the building.
Police and fire personnel rush to the scene and begin to extinguish the blaze, evacuate nearby homes and businesses and begin rescue efforts, but the disaster has far reaching consequences for residents and the state at large. So, what happens next?
Public safety personnel from throughout Inyo County, 36 in all, gathered in Bishop Thursday to practice management techniques for just such a disaster.